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Embracing My Pain
Just as Jesus embraced our sins on the cross, with that inspiration I shall embrace my trials, my pain, my sorrows until I feel God's embrace, God's healing.. His love for me.
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On Hostage Drama
Just recently, ex-police Rolando Mendoza had taken a bus full of tourists as hostages. It lasted for 10 straight hours and ended with three people killed including the hostage-taker and 17 survivors. By this event our country was put to shame in front of the world. It is a big wound to us Filipinos and I pray for its healing.
While watching the news it made me wonder how such people like him do such thing. What had been going on inside of him that made him decide to do this crime? If we were in his shoes, what would've happened? And then something dawned on me, a certain feeling of mercy and love as if God was trying to show a moral lesson to me that we should all learn from the incident:
'If only there is a Christian who made him change his mind on becoming a hostage-taker.. if only in his life and in his brokenness someone cared. It would've been a different story. It could've been very easy to prevent. No need for guns and bullets. No need for brute force and violence to settle the disputes.. Just love, that's the answer. It was the only thing each of us needed, more important than physical needs, and in his case no one cared.. and it robbed away his hope making him decide to do the hostage taking.
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
He died the moment he realized he has no more hope.'
Let us be reminded always about the lesson behind the many hostage dramas that have happened in history through this prayer:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things
I cannot change, the courage to change the things
I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-The Serenity Prayer of Alcoholics by Anonymous
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On Nature
Looking at the plants outside my window, I found peace. Because of that, I just realized that we really belong to nature. God created nature to be our perfect home yet we cannot deny to ourselves that our own lifestyle destroys nature.
Picture taken: courtesy of the Forest Rangers in Mt. Banahaw and Mrs. Maria Teresa Abesamis
Just a month ago Bagyong Basyang hit Quezon and it caused a big landslide at the top of Mt. Banahaw. It can be clearly seen even at a distance. Is it man made, triggered by mining, kaingin or deforestation? I don't think so; but could it be because of Climate Change that the typhoons today are fiercer and stronger and it triggered the landslide. Maybe. And in the end, we are to blame.. yet hope is never gone and each one of us can do something. Let's learn from the words of Helen Keller:
"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Act as if everything is up to you and pray as if God will take care of everything.
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Responsibility
They say that knowledge is power. How do you get knowledge? I say, from experiences and books. I read books.. I also gain many experiences in life. Therefore I gain power and with great power comes great responsibility. Bo was right, success is directly proportional to responsibility.
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Pnoy’s first SONA was rather factual than based on vision. He declared promises that are achievable not those that are almost impossible. It’s okay to me when he uttered the filth of the previous administration because he is trying to identify the problems or setbacks of our government and in that way we could solve them. Without knowing or identifying the problems we cannot solve or give solution to them. One of the best phrases that he told in his SONA was, “Let’s step from being a protester to being a contributor because protesters complain endlessly while contributors take part in the solution of our problems.” There’s a lot of truth to this quotation. Because of this, other countries prospered like
Let’s eradicate ‘crab mentality’ in our system and let’s start helping each other out. That is what PNoy wants to emphasize in his 1st SONA.
